As more and more organisations develop an international dimension—whether by seconding employees overseas, developing multinational teams, or merging with other firms—workforces are becoming more culturally diverse. The cultural challenges inherent in working together across cultures are increasingly leading organisations to consider ongoing intercultural skills training and development for their workforces.
Communicaid’s Intercultural Skills for Training courses are aimed at training professionals whose audiences are becoming increasingly international or for those interested in learning more about cultural awareness training. Participants are provided with greater cultural awareness for the learning context to enable the delivery of more cross-culturally effective training.
Benefits
Communicaid’s Intercultural Skills for Training will provide you with:
- In-depth understanding of the concept of culture and its application in the cross-cultural
training context
- An exploration of the importance of cultural awareness as a central component of successful
cross-cultural training
- Training techniques to convey cultural knowledge, awareness and skills in the cultural training
room
- The opportunity to experience cultural awareness training through application of appropriate
classroom activities and exercises
Who should attend
An Intercultural Skills for Training will be of benefit to you if you:
- Are already a trainer and wish to acquire cross-cultural training skills
- Work as a training professional in an international organisation
- Deliver training to multicultural audiences
- Would like to work as a training professional in an international environment
Course content
All our Intercultural Skills for Training training courses are designed to meet the specific needs of our clients depending on their specific requirements and existing skills set. A ‘Intercultural Skills for Training’ course typically includes:
- Cultural awareness in the training context
- Variation in learner expectations
- Intercultural learning styles
- Key cultural variables for training
- Effective cross-cultural communication styles
- Practical implications for design and delivery
Approach
Intercultural Skills for Training programmes are available seven days a week, 365 days a year, either at one of our training centres in London, Paris, Frankfurt and New York or at your offices in any location worldwide. We usually recommend a one or two day course but can also offer a more flexible format to suit your schedule.
Suitably tailored materials will be used throughout your course and your trainer will provide a balance of structured input and discussion of case studies and scenarios relevant to your own particular context.
The most appropriate training format, content and approach for your Intercultural Skills for Training course will be discussed during your diagnostic consultancy (please click here to read more about our approach).
Intercultural Skills for Training Course Trainer
Your Intercultural Skills for Training trainer will be assigned to you following the results of your diagnostic consultancy according to your objectives and areas of focus. Detailed below is the profile of a member of our cultural awareness training team
AMB
AMB combines her own first-hand experience of living and working in numerous different cultures with academic studies and extensive work experience in the field of cultural awareness. She has personally relocated across cultures several times since childhood and has an empathetic appreciation for those living and working across cultures.
German by birth, AMB completed her secondary education in London and Brussels, and then returned to the UK to undertake her first degree. After graduating, she worked at the European Commission in Brussels, then spent seven years in Washington, DC, editing the European Commission’s EUROPE magazine. On her return to the UK, AMB worked as a freelance consultant, maintaining her links with the European Commission providing liaison, translation and cultural awareness services. She focused on cultural differences between France, Germany, the UK and US in both business and social contexts. More recently, AMB worked as European Officer for Brighton and Hove City Council for two years, before returning to full-time education to pursue her Masters. She graduated from the University of Luton at the end of 2003 completing her dissertation on the role of culture in international mergers.
AMB has delivered a substantial amount of cultural awareness training since joining Communicaid at the beginning of 2004 working with a number of key clients including Gillette, Adidas, Colt and GSK. She has recently relocated to Lille and delivers training in both the UK and France. |
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